The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-09-22

TAKING CIGARS.
~ on xaxnn lfANUFACTURE
" 01NEnALLY KNOWN.
1aosss Ussa lrsssly Grown In North
uoaose-Hsrmsss eay it 10 the Hard
~ Al Crops - Raise Three Branches
- Trade and the Hands Employed.
~ afs universally smoked in this
~, and beyond the fact that they
mads Of tobacco, little attention 10
~ the kind Of tobacco or the inter-
~ processes Of their manufacture. It
of the idosyncrasies, too, of human
uee thas every person who smokes
~ hinsslf Judge Of the tobacco he
neking. Whether he 10 or not, this
80 viii demonstrate, a. cigars will
4oDoribed from the time the leaf comes
non the ground till the cigar reaches
= ~ tonsumer.
a. o4trsry to general belief, domes.
cigars are made Of tobacco en-.
V grown north Of Mason and
1eo's line. Cigar tobacco, as 1t 10
r. ~, differs from its brother Southern
1ogshead tobacco in that it does not
n3ain - much nicotine and is lighter
~ thinner leaf. This is technically
|lned seed leaf, or Havana seed leaf, II
|oeoed from which 1t grows is of Span
- attraction. Attempts have been made
~ &s1hiou cigars out of Maryland, vir.
~ and Kentucky tobacco, but they
~ TOO rank to be smoked with any sat-
notion. A kind of cigar is very popu.
- q certain sections Of the country
nown q Wheeling stogies or Pittsburg
So1o1eA These are made from Southern
~ Acgshead tobacco, soaked until all the
sM1ootine IL. washed out Of it and then
soaghly rolled into long, thin shape Of
( cylindrical form to resemble q cigar.
NAssling Is the headquarters of this in.
q 1ustty while Pittsburg furnishes . great
Dany tobies Of the kind described, which
- smoked and enjoyed alike by the
Z sul11ionaire mill-owner and the humble
lse4ory hand.
g Cigar tobacco is grown in the follow
y nc States: Vermont, New Hampshire,
Z 1Eassachusetts, Wisconsin, New York,
Indiana and Illinois. Connecticut fur
1lshed in 1885 10000 cases of what is
eommercially known as Connecticut to-
bacco, but some of which was grown in
& Massachusetts,, Vermont and New Hamp-
shire; Pennsylvania about 10000 cases {;
4 New York about ID, 900 cases; Ohio about
1900 cases, and Northern Indiana,
Northern Illinois and Wisconsin-known
- Wisconsin tobacco-from %, 900 to 3d.
80 cases. This year, as last, the drouth or
Seone other cause played the mischief with
go tobacco crops in Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana and Pennsylvsnia. In 1885 the
Foansylvanis tobacco amounted to 70, 900
1Aees, while the Wisconsin tobacco crop
= the Same year amounted to 10000
oasee The cases contain an average
weight Of S26 pounds Of leaf tobacco.
Elguring mp the crop Of last year, it will
~ seen that there were about 160,0
ea6ss Of S25 pounds each in weight. As
IL ease yields ON an average 5000 cigars,
q ~ product Of 1885, II worked up into
Sazs. would yield 2,4O0, 900, 600. The
/ 1eslal revenue returns for thst year
~ that $500, ,000. 900 cigars were man.
lhstussd; hence the discrepancy was
Mads up Of imported tobacco from Cuba
- ths Island of Sumatra.
yssmsrs who raise cigar tobacco say it
\ = ~ hardest crop Of all to make grow,
I'D IL most exhausting of the soil.
ySom the time the seed 10 sown till it is
toady 70 b delivered to the wholesale
1oof-tobacco merchant, unremitting care
Snnd painstaking labor must be the cigar
tDbacco cultivators portion. The seed,
onaller than mustard seed, is first sown
!. Depmiscuously in the field or bed. When
~ begins to appear above the ground the
I D1nnts are set out about two feet apart; the
4 ~, whom the tobacco plants are set out,
! keeling like patch Of cabbage or corn.
CONSTANT watchfulness Is then needed to
heep away worms, whose ravages are
Z Anld 70 destroy in . single night fine
Eo1d Of tobacco. Suckers, or offshoots
~ ~ plant, must be taken away, the
i inEunt stalk needing all the sustenance
~ I'm Of earth can give It. Constant
hooing Of the earth about the plants
poots b indispensable. Topping COM
B nces abput the time the plant ID going
~ ed and the farmer must keep Q
o1nhful eye about this time for stmos.
+; sgic changes. The plants on no account
- b nipped by frosts. The building
~ gigantic fires 10 frequently necessary,
4 - smoke Of which waiting through the
1ants destroys any deleterious effect Of
III 6ool or frosty atmosphere. The tobacco
t1ont grows quickly, and It is allowed
( ~ stand until It reaches maturity, but II
1 15ugt threatens, It 10 ct once cut close to
- ground. The farmer then ties two
s a1ool1u together and throws It over poles,
2 1ns downward, in his barn. which he has